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: SECRET OF SPAIN'S TROUBLE.
The New York Herald publishes the
- follow) og which is claimed to be the
.real cause which led to the downfall of
the old cabinet and the installation of
Sagasta into power:
. Nearly all of the Spanish bonds had
been floated in France, and the recent
leans were placed there, .bub the latest
application for further loans had not
been favorably responded to. Tbe
only means, therefore, of raising
money was through the bank of Spain,
through which application was made
at- the rate of 50,000.000 pesetas.
or $12,000,000 a month, In order to carry
. on tbe war in Cuba and the Philip
pine Islands. The bank, of Spain de
clined to make further advances to
the government several weeks ago,
and the cabinet thereupon removed the
governor of the bank. -The recently
appointed governor of the bank there
upon tried to force upon the bank com
mitte, or board of directors, the ap
plication of the governmeni for ad
ditional loans, but his efforts failed.
This was followed by the determina
. tien of the cabinet to taker steps to re
duce interest rates on the government
bonds of 5 to 6 per cent to 3 and 4 per
eent respectively. . Immediately tbe
cabinet was deluged with protests.
Some of the objections - came from
persons hie-h in authority and - in a
position to dictate terms to Spain.
The combined weight of conserva
. fives in Spain, which embraced, as in
dicated, the bulk' of tbe holders .of
Spanish bonds, whose interest would
be cut in two, immediately answered
this proposition with the suggestion
that it would be far better to stop all
war expenses than to adopt such a
radical course. In fact, many of the
conservatives said it would be better
to gain anything in the way of indem
nity which Spain could obtain by the
sacrifice of sovereignty and accepting
an offer to grant liberty to Cuba, if it
could be brought about in a way that
would not be dishonorable to Spain.
The queen yielded to this, and the re
sult was the resignation of the old
cabinet and the calling uporr Sagasta
to form a new one. " '
Alamicos. Next year there will be
eight factories in California -and. one
in Oregon (the one to bo built at La
Grande) with a total capacity of "about
190,000 tons, or something more than
100,000 tons in excess of the l equip
ments of the coast. In consequence a
market east of the Rocky mountains
will be found for the surplus at prices
that prevail east- less freight charges,
and unless all tbe beet sugar factories
shall enter into a trust sugar, on this
oast should be reduced in price to cor
respond with that prevailing in east
ern markets, so th6 coast should de
rive some benefit from the.: sugar beet
industry besides that of manufacturing'
THE DALLES WAKING UP.
In past years The Dalles has been
accused of being a sleepy, inactive, un
enterprising eity, accepting what busi
ness that came to it without solicita
tion, and putting forth no effort to at
tract more.1 Possibly The Dalles has
baen somewhat dormant in the past,
but it will not be in the future. It is
waking up, and from this on it will be
- a lively place that will '" get anything
away from The Dalles that it needs.
This season, the wheat raised in Klicki
tat county began moving- toward Co
lumbus and Lyle, and the trade of the
farmers that formerly came here was
attract ad elsewhere, but The Dalles
was equal to the emergency, and made
a bid for the trade that can not but win.
Good roads, free ferriage and -competing
freight rates on the river will re
gain to The Dalles what it was about
tolose. ,u
The trade from snother section is
being theatened by the building of the
Columbia Southern railroad, that in
another year will take the wool from
the interior to other points than.tfiis,
but since a progressive spirit has been
' arroused here it is altogether probable
that .either ; additional transportation
facilities or manufacturing industries
will be' Inaugurated to attract the
wool trade hither. The Dalles possesses
sufficient capital and energy to-outrival
all competitors, and nuV that it
is beginnnig to move forward nothing
can check its onward march. The
possible enterprises to be started with
in tbe next year are a narrow gauge
railroad leading from here up the
Deschutes, . xroolen mills, scouring
mills, soap factory and scanning estab
lishment. We are getting awake now
and nothing can stop up.
WHY ENGLAND OBJECTS.
The possibility that the British cabi
net might io something for silver and
would favor the reopening of the India
mints has calledVforth numerous critic
isms from the London press. 'The
papers are almost unanimously opposed
to anything that tends toward bimetal-
ism, and are bitter in their denuncia
tions of an attempt to break the power
of gold monemetalism. The Daily
Newb rakes Mr. Balfour, the first lord
of the treasury, for the part he has
taken in the effort to establish bimetal
ism as follows:
I "There are those, including our
selves, who regard it as a -public scan
dal that the first lord of the treasury
should be a bimetalist. They argue
that critics may justly doubt the sin
cerity of our monometalism when they
see a man at the treasury who would,
if he could, destroy the whole of our
monetary system."
But the Graphic is the most out
spoken of them all, and clearly sets
forth why England opposes anything
but the gold standard when it says:
"All circumstances lead us to be
lieve that the government will give no
undertaking to reopen the Indian
mints. Gold may yet again be current
in India, if the policy. 1895 is boldly
pursued. . Then the single gold stand
ard would rule throughout the empire.
That is our interest both as producers
and lenders of gold. We are not going
to throw it away in order .to put money
Into tbe pockets of Colorade mine-
owners, or to help Mr. McKinley out
of electioneering difficulties. "
Indeed the Graphic speaks truthfully
when it says it is to the interest of En
gland, as a lender of gold to maintain a
gold standard. . This is not only true
of the English money loaners, but of
the money loaners throughout the
world. The gold standard maintains
not only a real but a fictitious value
for their wealth, whereas bimetalism
would reduce its valve. England being
a great loaning nation is interested in
keeping money scarce throughout the
world in Order that its interests may
remain high. Besides it produces no
silver, and has" no interest in advanc
ing the price of that metal.
-But why should America, that is a
borrowing nation and a producer of
silver, insist upon a gold standard
simply to enhance the value of prop
erty held by its creditors? Vby should
it not be independent as England and
dictate a financial policy of its own
that would give its people a greater
volume of money, and thus raise the
price of its proructs and make the
debts of its people easier to pay?
lSlXTEEN-TO-OSE FALLACY."
Gold monometalists refer .to the con
tention of those demanding the free
coinage of silver as the '16-to-l
fallacy," and hoot at the idea of main
taining a parity between the two
metals at that ratio while tbe commer
cial ratio, is 31.94 to 1. They do not
take into account the relative supply
of each of the metals, or the lack of
demand for one and tbe increasing de
mand for the other, and some of them
go so far as to state that the reason
that .an ounce of gold is today com
mercially worth 31 94 ounces of silver
is because there are thirty onetimes as
much silver in the world as gold. In
tbe face of this statement, however,
the director of the mint, who is reliable
authority, In his annual report to the
secretary of the treasury, shows the
relative amounts of gold and silver in
the world to be, gold, S4.3T9.600,000;
rtilver (coining value) $4,267,800,000.
The ratio of coinage the world over is
a little less than 15i of silver to one of
gold, therefore at this ratio there is to
day $91 ,800,000 more gold than silver.
In view of this fact, the demand for
free coinage at the ration 16 to-1 is not
a fallacy, but a logical demand, very
nearly the ratio that would be fixed by
supply and demand if the two metals
were given equal places as money,
The reason why one ounce of gold is
commercially worth 31 ounces of silver
is not becanse of an increase in the
supply of silver but because of a lack of
demand for it as a money metal. -
Silver today is in the same condition
as would be any other comoditjL for
which there was a limited demand.
Compare it with wheat in this country
now and two year ago. Then there
was an abundance of wheat throughout
the world, the 'demand for American
wheat was small, and consequently the
price was low. Now there is a scarcity
of wheat ' everywhere except in
America,' and as a result wheat here is
high. An artificial demand has been
created, and the inevitable has hap
pened high prices prevail.
. Silver is in the same conditicn wheat
was t tro years ago, except that there
has been no over production, but there
has bees a continuous falling off in the
demand. While the supply has re
mained very nearly in proportion to
16 ounces of silver to one of gold, tbe
demand has diminished through the
effects of adverse legislation to less
than 31 to 1. Were an artificial de
mand created for it by its universal
use as a money metal its value.
measured in gold, would at once rise
to the ratio dictated by the relative
supply of each metal. Hence there is
no fallacy about the demand of biraet
alists that silver should be coined at
the present legal ratio and be given
an equal place with gold as a primary
money.
upon which the administration of tbe
government . was conducted until the
favored classes got control of it.
LIVE STOCK INDUSTRIES.
JUSTICE FIELD. , ;
On December 1, Stephen J. Field,
associate justice of the supreme court,
will retire from public life, after more
than forty years spentupon the bench,
thirty-four years of whicn have been
spent as a justice of the highest and
most honored tribunal in . the world.
No-man has ever held the position so
many years, and eertain it is none has
ever more highly honored that exalted
position. Possessed of a clear mind
and strong physical constitution, he
was ably fitted fur the arduous -'duties
of a jurist, and tne many? important
decisions be has'written evidence care
ful application and deep thought.
He began his official life 'in Calif
ornia forty-seven years ago as a mem
ber of the first legislature of California,
and in 1857 was elected to the supreme
bench of the state, where his clear
judicial decisions attracted tbe atten
tion of the entire nation, and in 1863,
although he was a democrat, President
Lincoln appointed hint justice of tbe
United States supreme court. Justice
Field has indeed been honored by tbe
nation, but in return he has honored j
the position he has so long held, "for
none can say but that ha has been an
honest, upright judge, nor will any
question the soundness of bis judg
ment or his .. integrity : of purpose.
Stephen J. Field" is one of the great
men of the present age, and the nation
loses a faithful servant in his retire
ment from the supreme bench.
WAS A GREAT 'JOURNALIST.
Charles A. Dan'na, founder of tbe
New York Sun and one of America's
greatest newspaper writers, is dead.
His life closed at Glencove, Long Is
land, Sunday afternoon. He was 78
years old, and 50 years of his life had
been spent in newspaper work. Mr.
Banna was accorded a place at the top
of the ladder in journalism, and beyond
.question was one of the greatest think
ers of the age He first came into
prominence in 1847- as an associate of
Horace Greeley on the editorial staff
of the New York Tribune, when that
paper began advocating the abolition
of slavery. He was' connected with
the Tribune until after the war, but
in 1867 helped found the New York
Sun. Mr. Dana was one of tbe found
ers of the republican party, and con
tinued to advocate the principles of
that, party until be began tbe publi
cation of the Sun, an i ipoused the
cause of democracy, thovigu he was in
dependent to tbe extent that be criti
cised all political parties. Of late
years he has been nrither democrat
nor republican, and tliq Sun, under
bis management has en the. most
open critic of public uicn and events
of any journal published in the nation
His was indeed an eventful life, and it
may be truthfully said that the world
is better for his having lived.
SOMETHING ABOUT SUGAR.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1897, the imports of sugar into the
United States amounted in round num
bers to 2,500,000 tons, costing approx
imately $100,000,000. Of this amount
probably 500,000- tons were imparted
prior to July 1st, in anticipation of an
advance In duties, leaving as the nor
mal requirement 2.000.C00 tons. Tbe
Hawaiian Islands contributed 200,000,
tons, or one tenth, foreign beet sugar
1,000,000 tons, or ono-half. and foreign
cine other than Hawaiian the bal.
a ice, or 800,000 tons. ...
It is estimated by competent author
ieiss that 'the Pacific coast consumes
73,000 tons of sugar annually, which
has been supplied by the - Hawaiian
Islands and tbe local beet sugar facto
ries. At the present time there are
iour beet sugar factories in California,
Alvarado, Watson ville, Chicatoand
; THE WORLD'S MONEY.
Tbe director of the mint .has sub
mitted bis report for the fiscal year
ending June SO, 1897. The report
shows that the value of the gold de
posited at the mints and . assay ofijees
during the year was 1129,105,500. The
coin executed during the year was as
follows: Gold, $71,646,705; silver dol
lars, $21,203,701; subsidiary silver, $83,
124,086; minor coins, $584,509. The
production of precious metals during
the year 1890 was, gold, $33,088,000;
silver, coinage value, $76,069,238, and
the net imports of gold were $44,609,841,
making, an increase in the stock of
gold held in this country nearly $100,-
000,000. According to the report the
gold and silver in the United States
July -1,. 1897. was. gold $696,270,542:
silver, $634,509,786. The total met
tallic money in the world on January
1 is estimated to be, gold, $4,359,600,
000; full legal tender silver, $3,615,800,-
000; limited legal tender silver $G52,
500,000, .and the world's - product of
preciouametals in 1896, gold, $204,000,
000; silver, $215,242,700.
Tbe American sheep is an important
factor in the industries of the country
as well as having become quite an im
portant factor in politics, for the Bheep
may be said to have turned elections
in several of the states; but when com
pared with the two other stock indus
tries cattle and hogs loses some of
its importance. The report of the de
partment of agriculture shows that in
1896 there were in the United States
48,222.995 cattle, valued at $872,883,961:
38,298,783 sheep, valued at $65,167,735;
and 42,842,759 hogs, valued at $186,529,
745. We have no statistics at hand of
the amount of sales of beef or mutton
either for domestic use or export,
hence cannot make a comparison of
tne relative importance of themeatrL
products from., these two classes of
animals, but we have the statistics of
the amount of wool produced and tbe
amount of hog products exported,
wnijh will serve to show the relative
importance of the two industries. Ac
cording to the bureau of statistics of
tbe treasury department the wool jro-J
duced in tne United states in 78S6 was
310,006,000 pounds. Allowing it was
worth 15 cents a pound,"- whl'etp would
be a liberal valuation even for this
year, the income from the wool would
have been $46,500,000. A table pre
pared by the Cincinnati Price Current
of the value of hog products exported
in 1896 shows the total amount to have
been $89,696,768; segregated as follows:
Bacon, $37,776,293; hams, $10,960,567;
pork, $4,138,400: lard, $36,821 ,508. The
entire hog products exported, to 'say
nothing of that retained for domestic
use. wad worth $35,000,000 more than
all the wool produced in the country.
Tbe lard exported, which i3 about 10
per cent of the entire value of hogs,
lacked only $9,000,000 of the value cf
the wool.
' So it will be seen that the .heep in
austry, tbougn of considerable im
portance in this ttate. is of far less im
portance throughout the country than
either 'the cattle or bog industry.
This, too, in face of the fact that, with
the exception ef three years, from '94
to '97, the sheep has been fostered by
a protective duty for more than 25
years, while tbe hog has been forced
to root for himself and the alleged
protection thrown around the cow was
of no consequence.
The eyes of the world are upon tbe
municipal campaign 'In New York,
wondering if tbe people of that great
metropolis are really, going to turn
the government over to Tammany or
Boss Piatt. No greater calamity could
befall tbe people, hut indications arc
that Tammany will succeed. The elec
tion of ei- her George or Low would be
preferable to this. George represents
the interests of the great toiling masses
of the city and Low the interests o
tbe aristocrats, but either would give
New Yo'k a cleaner administration
than would the tool of Tammany or
Plstt"
With the rich discoveries of gold in
Kittitas county, Washington, and the
rich strikes that have been made in
tbe Blue mountains the past year,
there is little reason for would-be
gold hunters starting off to Klonkike
where suffering and death from expos
ure stare them in the face. There are
fortunes awaiting the prospectors who
go 'into the Blue mountains or into
Kittitas county, and those places are
easy to reach, too easy perhaps to
attract those who want to risk their
lives in the search for gold.
JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY,
"I am a Jeffersonian democrat,"
says Henry George, who is a candidate
for mayor of New York, and from the
principles he enunciates, he certainly
is entitled to this distinction. His op
ponents charge him with all manner
of shortcomings and fanatical, isms,
but so far he has been able to answer
their charges and submit proof of his
sincerity and honesty, of purpo-e.
Some have denounced him as an enemy
to property, to which he replies:
'So far from being an enemy of the
rights of property, I am scrupulously
in favor' of those ' rights. I believe
that what a man has made by his own
legitimate efforts or has legally in
herited is his, and that he should be
given the fullest protection in its en
joyment. " But I do not' belieye that
corporations have the right to tax tbe
community for what property belongs
to tne people." '
By others he is charged with being
a socialist. To this he replies:
"I am not a socialist, as the world
generally understands that term. I
believe in equal rights' to all and no
privileges to a special class."
By still others it is charged, that if
he is elected mayor be will overturn
laws and create confusion. To this he
replies:
"If I am elected I can only execute
the laws as I find them. I know that
the laws as they are must be carried
into effect. No man, mayor or other
wise, is supe-ior to the law."
These expressions are very similar
to those made by Thomas Jefferson in
the esrly days of the republic, They
certainly are such principles as would
guarantee "equal rights to all and
special privileges to none," which are
the foundation ' principles of old
Jeffersonian democracy, the principles
What has become of those commis
sions which were so speedily to follow
the recommendation of thedelagation?
Why are we kept in this agony of sus
pense? This is the wail of Messrs.
Houser, Hall and Sammers.
It was a Dakota editor who wrote
"the price cf ihis paper is not in
creased by the Dingley bill, but we
wish to correct the misapprehension of
some of our subscribers who appear to
think it wns placed on the free list."
Eight long, weary weeks have been
consumed by tbe criminal court of Chi
cago trying A. L. Luetgert, accused of
murdering his wife and dissolving her
body in a vat filled with caustic potash,
but at last the case was given to the
jury Monday evening. Luetgert is a
millionaire sausage maker of Chicago,
and his trial has attracted widespread
attention.
And now another newspaper man
has been honored by the. administra
te. President McKinley has ap
pointed B. W. Johnson, editor of the
Corvallis Gazette, postmaster at Cor
yallis. Johnson ii all right, and is en
titled to the crumb that has fallen up
on his table. He has fought many
battles for the G. O. P. and is deserv
ing of recognition.
Eyen before congress has had an op
portunity to create the new territory
of Lincoln out of a part of Alaska, Eli
Gage, son of Secretary of the Treasury
Gage, bobbs up serenely as a candi
date for governor of the new territory.
Young Gage is about as previous in
asking for a place as were some of the
Oregon aspirants for federal offices
last fall. "
The Pendleton Tribune, one of the
prosperity organs of the upper country,
startles its readers by announcing that
wheat is now 12 cents higher than it
was a year, ago, and intimates this it
the result of the change of adminis
tration. it our memory serves us
right wheat was selling at 75 cents in
The Dalles a year ago, six months be
fore the change in the administration
took place.
A good deal of talk Is being indulged
in about an extra session of the legis
lature, but apparently it is only talk,
It is not likely Gov. Lord has any in
tention of convening the legislature
any time during the coming winter.
It is too near an election. ' Any mis
takes that might be made would be
charged against the republican party,
and. would certainly wreck it. If there
is a special session of the legislature
it will likely be after the June election
next year.
In Chicago Edward C. Brice has fit
ted up a factory at an expense of $25,
000 for the manufacture of gold out of
baser melals. Just what the process
is has not yet been made public, but
it is understood Mr. Brice subjects
other metals to intense heat for a long
period of time, and that they come out
pure gold. If his experiment is a suc
cess there will be no further need of
going to Klondike for wealth.
In reply to an invitation to take part
in the New York election, Mayor Har
rison said: "I will not take part in
your mayoralty contest if any national
issues antagonistic to the Chicago
platform are to have a place in the
campaign. I am opposed to national
issues in local politics and if they are
sprung in New York they must con
form to tbe Chicago platform if I take
part in the campaign."
Large cities are built by. the tinf
bucket brigade, the men who toil in
factories and mills. The Dalles nor
any other town can expect to become a
great city until it has a few .factories
that give employment to labor.' As a
commercial city it ranks high for the
population . it has, but it has not
enough mouths to feed or backs to
"clothe. Give ut a few factories and we
will become the rival of any . iutericr
City on the coast.
How unkind it is of President Mc
Kinley to put off the Oregon appoint
ments until December. He should
consider how anxious he felt a year
ago now, and then compare his posi
tion with those who "fought, bled and
died" for his cause last full, and con
sider what their solicitude for being
rewarded is now. But he has said
they must wait until December before
he will unlock his storehouse of ap
pointments, and his word is law in
this case. i
Astoria can afford to offer, a bonus
of $50,000 for a Souring mill. Astoria
receives no wheat direct from tbe
growers, still it realizes tbe benefits to
be derived for creating a market that
will draw first owners of that staple
within its boundaries. The Dalies re
ceives from 7,000,000 to 8.000,000 pounds
of wool annually from growers. What
can it offer to create a market for the
products of the sheep , farm? Can it
not offer half as much for woolen mills
as Astoria offers for a flouring iaiii?
Another blunder of the monstrosity
known as the Dingley tariff law has
been discovered. A consignment of
20,000 pounds of tea has been received
at New York of a quality not provided
for in the Dingley law, and as the new
law provides that all teas brought' in
to this country, and not provided for
in the tariff schedule, shall be seised
and destroyed, the custom officers are
in a muddle.. If they follow the law
and confiscate the tea, the government
becomes liable for damages. ' If they
violate . the law and allow the teas
taken out of bond, off comes their of
ficial heads. - Evidently that tariff law
will have to be remoddled.-
mat tn ere are evidences of pros
perity on every hand cannot be denied
by any sane person, foi' there is more
money in circulation and more im
provement going on tbe country over
than there has been in years past,
This is brought about almost solely by
the increased amount of money brought
to America from abroad to pay for
this year's crop of cereals, which is
pretty good evidence of the truthful-
ess of the statement of bimetalitts
that it was more money in circu
lation and not increased taxation that
was required to Improve times. Had
it not been for our immense wheat
crap and good prices this would have
been an excedingly dull year.
In bis letter of acceptance of tbe
nomination for mayor of New York,
Judge Van Wyck declares himself in
favor of honest and economical muni
cipal administration, and ignores
national issues. His declarations are
piausible, and were it not for the fact
that he is backed by Tammany, would
meet with hearty approval from tbe
people of the great metropolis, but the
methods of Tammany are so well
known, that the masses haye no con
fidence in promises made by anybody
not free from tbe clutches of that or
ganization. Economical and honest
administration under Tammany rule Is
as absurd to think of as economy being
practiced by. a republican Oregon
legislature.
Enough water goes ip Waste'annually
through the Deschutes river, in Eist--ern
Oregon, to irrigate 445,000 acres
of arid land. An irrigation system
that would check this waste and dis
tribute the water according to the
heeds of the 'suction drained would add
enormously to the wheat and fruit
produ'un'g area of the Inland Empire,
says the Oregoniaa;' We might add
too that enough water power is going
to waste in that great river, if har
nessed,' to turn the wheels of all the
factories on the Pacific coast. Within
a distance of from 20 to 30 miles of The
Dalle power could be had and trans
mitted here by electric wires that
would make this the manufacturing
city of the Northwest.
Ex-Senator Corbett has been asked
by the Indianapolis monetary com
mission for an opinion upon a number
of questions pertaining to finance, and
like a majority of those connected with
banking business, he sees no means of
reforming the currency except by the
issuance of sufficient interest-bearing-
bonds to take up all outstanding gov
ernment obligations. This is but
natural. Mr. Corbstt is a money
lender, and it is tohis interest that the
government be made a borrower to the
full extent of its credit. When the
government enters the field as a bor
rower it increases the demand for
money, by becoming a competitor with
private borrowers, and enhances the
profits of the lenders.
.. Since tbe failure of tbe Wolcott com
mission to gain any concessions from
Eurone for holding an international
.monetary .convention, the two great
political. : parties of America - will
be forced, to make tbe money
question the issue without any equivo
cation's in 1900. The republican party
can ho longer juggle with the inter
national bimetalism fad, but must
come but squarely for the single gold
standard, for gold monometalism.
On th'e other hand, the democratic
party must declare for an independent
monetary system regardless of other
nations. And possibly we need not
wait until 1900 for the issues to be thus
drawn. A new congress and one-
third the senate is to be elected next
yearVand iu all probability that will
be the issue in 6tate elections in 1898.
ALL GATES NOW OPEN
Agreement' Reached Among
the Railroads.
AMERICANS CONTROL
New York Millionaires Have Re.
sumed Control of the Custom
Houses of Honduras.
. To Maintain Order.
Chicago, Oct. 20. A special from
Washington says:
President McKinley will issue an or
der placing a large district in Alaska,
of which St. Michaels will be the cen
ter, under tbe control of the military
arm of the government. By this ac
tion the authorities believe that the
lawlessness feared as a result of the
rush of goldseekers to the great North
west territory will be suppressed. Tbe
proposed military district will be about
100 miles square.
The determination to issue the order
was arrived at, it is said, at a cabinet
meeting. While no official reports of
anything but a peaceful condition have
reached the department, private com
munications from responsible parties
have convinced the authorities that
something more was necessary than
civilian rule. The authorities say that
offenses committed within the bound
aries of the district, to be described by
the president in his order, will subject
those responsible to tbe military, and
prosecution by the civilian authorities
before w-fcom they will be brought.
Tho department 1b making an ex
amination of the geographical condi
tions of the country in tbe vicinity of
the mouth of the Yukon, to obtain
data that will enable it to prescribe
exactly the boundaries of the proposed
hew reservation. It is also desirable
to limit th'e'-reservation to the smallest
dimensions that will take in St. Mi
chaels as'a;center, and yet include the
estuary of the Yukon, where the law
less element might gather if excluded
from the town itself.
There will be little excuse' for the
commission of lawless acts based on
starvation within the limits of the hew
reservation, for Secretary Alger has
authorized the officer in command of
the troops at St. Michaels not only to
ieed miners wbo may be in actual need,
but to ship them out of the countrv if
they are unable to pay their own - way.
A Hot Conteat Probable.
Denvee, Oct. 19. A special from
Omaha says .Master-in-Chancery Cor
nish, of tbe Union Pacific, left today
for St. Paul, and will not return until
the day of the sale of the Dnion
Pacific. Cornish expects two bids, one
from the reorganization committee,
an 1 the other from a secret syndicate
said to represent the Southern Pacific
interests. A check for $5,000,000 must
be left with Cornish five days' before
tbe date of tbe sale.
Local railroad men believe a hot con
test will develop between the reorgani
zation committee and the Southern
Pacifies people before the road ie
knocked down.
Geo. M. Pullman President of the Pullman
Car Co., Dead Gold From Auiitralia
Portugal May Support
Spain.
SALT LAKE, Oct. 19. At a meeting
yesterday of the officials of tho Union
Pacifi-:, Oregon Short Lino aci u. It.
& N. Co., a mutually satisfactory agree
ment was entered into between the
three companies.
1 he agreement provides for the re
sumption of all traffic reliit;;i.s be
tween the roads which were in ex
istence prior to September 23 last,
when the cancellation of the Oregon
Kauroad & Navigation tariffs by the
Union Pacific, took plaje."
The agreement also provides for the
restoration of local traffic, rates be
tween the Union Pacific and the Ore
gon Short Line in Utah, Idaho, Wyom
ing and Colorado, the E. Ellery Ander
son agreement of last week ocly cover
ing Missouri river business. Tbe Ore
gon Short Line's several gateways will
remain open to all roads. -
The Chicago and Portland train ser
vice via the Chicago & Northwestern
ana union racinc win be resumed at
once. 1 he service to Portland via the
Rio Grande lines will be continued.
. AMERICANS IN CONTROL.
Government by Syndicate la Being Tried
In Honduras.
New YORK, Oct. 19. News has
reached Wall street that a Honduras
syndicate, composed of the Vander
bilts, Astors and other Now York mil
lionaires, has resumed control of the
custom-houses and banking institu
tions, of tbe republic, and has com
menced the task of liquidaticg the in
debtedness of that country. The con
gress of Honduras has authorized the
issue of $7,000,000 in bonds to tbe
syndicate. They are to run for 25
years, and are to be applied to settle
ment of the foreign debt of tbe nation.
Phis experiment of government by
a syndicate is the latest and most fin
de siecle outgrowth of tbe tendency to
trust control that has developed in the
United States, or anywhere elee on
earth. Back in the latter '60s. the
financial troubles of Honduras bad
their beginning. Revolutions and in
ternal dissensions have utterly de
moralized the country, the richest in
natural resources of all the Central
American countries.
In its effort to liquidate the indebted
ness, the government issued bonds,
but speculators gained control of them,
and the Dation realized only about $1,
000,000. This involved her hopelessly
in debt, but she has been struggling
under the burden.
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l'ortncal AJuy Support Spain.
London, Oct. 19. A dispatch from
Madrid says there is much discussion
at the Spanish capital on the subject
of an alliance -.between Spain and
Portugal, reported to be in process of
negotiation. The Portuguese minis
ter of marine, who is no w in Madrid,
has expressed the belief that sucn an
alliance may1e accomplished at any
moment.
Eternal Vigilance.
" Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
It is the price of everything worth having-.
11 is tne price
of life itself. A
man needn't be
i always looking
for danger,
afraid that
something will
happen to him:
but a wise nan
will form a habit
of care about the
mportant things of
' It isn't half so
much trouble to take
care of yourself as it
is not to. A tr.an
who follows regular.
Healthy hapits, leeu
eoon all tue time.
Life t worth living
to him. Rut a man
who "don't want to
bother" with taking
care of himself ha
more pain and mts-
" ery crowded into one
day ' than a g o o a
healthy, hearty man
who lives right
would ever know of
in a whole vear.
When a man's stomach is out of order,
and his digestion don't work: when his liver
gets to be sluggish and won't clear the bile
out of his blood, it is time for him to look
out for himself. He gets no nourishment
out of his food. His blood gets- thirker and
thicker with impurities. His nerves get irri
tated. He loses energy and fighting force.
He may say, " I can stand it, I will feel
better to-morrow; " but the chances are he
will feci, worse to-morrow and worse slill
next day. He ought to put himself right at
once. He needs Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. It is made for in si this
It rouses up the digestive and nutritive
organs, and gives them power to extract
from the food all the nntrittrl, elemntc
and transform them into rich, nourishing
blood. It enable the liver to cleanse out all
bilious impurities and nour into the circula
tion an abundance of highly vitalized blood,
full of the life-giving red corpuscles which
build llD health flri mil miliar trirt li
and nerve-energy. It does not make Babhy
flesh. It is the mil -JttiifaHIa tnnij anil
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TREASURY ROBBED.'
Government's Lous. May Reach Into tbe
Thousands.
Washington, Oc.o, SUver dol
lars are. missing from the treasury
which may number thousands' Treas
urer Roberts has;'eproy3'cxpert8 to
count piece by piece the $100,000,000
which ought to be in the vaults.'
Recently the cuin was counted by
the weighing process, but Roberts
will not give a receipt tojivsredeces
sor, Morgan, until 'he? knows 'the full
extent of the "robbery, t which., he . sus
pects has been carried on some time.
During this count a trusted employe
was caught opening bags which con
tain $1000 in silver, taking out as many
as he wished and making up tbe weight
of the extracted silver with lead. At
the conclusion of the count all of the
bags showed the required weight.
Upon the treasurer s suggestion
some of the bags were opened, and so
much lead was discovered that a con
sultation was held and it was decided
to employe a force of 50 clerks to go
over the counting in detail. Tbi
task will consume six months and wil
cost the government $25,000.
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No Changes to be Blade la the Consular
Offices at Present.
Chicago, Oct. 21. A Washington
special says General Fitzhugh Lee,
consul-general to Cuba, has announced
to bis friends that be expects to return
to Cuba about December 15 and remain
until tbe conclusion of tbe war. He
will be accompanied by Walter B.
Barker, consul at Sagua la Grande,
who arhived in this country shortly
alter General Lee, and on tbe same
mission to furnish the president with
definite information as to the situation
in Cuba.
President McKinley has decided to
make no change of consular offices on
tne island until the rebellion ' in one
way or another is brought to an end.
Tbe interests of this country and its
citizens, the president believes, will ba
better served by officers who have had
experience on the island.
Wej ler Is 8t o bbor .
New York, Oct. 21. A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana says:
In spite of .his protests to tbe contra
ry, General Weyler, when it comes to
tbe actual test of resigning his com
mand, exhibits decided reluctance. He
has refused to give over authority as
captain-general to his successor, Jim
iniz Castellanos.although peremptorily
ordered to do so by Spain's minister of
war. The situation is critical. Sagasta
cannot, it ii believed, permit his min
istry to be openly defied by General
Weyier, and yet he may have to resort
to extreme measures to remove the
captain-general.
Castelianos arrived- in the capital
late Monday night. He bad been ap
pointed by Spain's minister of war to
replace General Weyler until General
Blanco arrived in Cuba. Castellanos
was in tbe field when tbe appointment
came, but he at once started for the
palace. In some unaccountable man1
ner a man-of-war sent to fetch him was
retarded.
- Castellanos proceeded to tbe palace
on Tuesday morning, expecting to be
sworn in as captain-general, but it was
very soon apparent that General Wey
ley did not intend thatanytbing of the
sort should happen. He made excuses
and hesitated until Castellanos was
provoked to cab'e the situation to Vad
rid. A reply came quickly. It was a
peremptory order that General Weyler
should vacate, and that tbe newly ap
pointed man should assume command
ai once.
But even then General Weyler did
not obey. He told Castellanos that be
fore he would hand over the office he
must have a written statement from
his successor to the effect that the four
western provinces were pacified. Cas
tellanos had been in the field and knew
the truth and refused to sign any such
document.
This happened Tuesday evening.
General Weyler is still captain-general,
and in effect defies any one to di
vest him of his authority. General
Weyler's friends ascert that he will
not relinquish bis command until a few
hours before the time be has fixed to
sail for Spain. The date of his depart
ure is now fixed for October 30. But
it was once before fixed for the 20th.
There is time for much to happen be
fore General Blanco can arrive.
Died of Heart Failure.
CHICAGO, Oct. 19. George M. Pull
man, president oi woniumaa uaruo.,
died suddenly of heart disease this
morning in his magnifieent brown-
stone home at the corner of Prairie
avenue and Eighteenth street. He re
tired last evening at the usual hour,
which was somewhat early. He war
apparently in ordinary health and
there was no indication of his demise
or indeed any premonition even of ill
ness. He called a physician at 4:30
this morning, but wa4 delerious when
the doctor arrived and never recovered.
Heart trouble caused his death.
(Soverelffas From Australia.
San Francisco, Oct. 19. The
steamship Alameda, which Is due here
October 21, bas 400,000 English sov
ereigns, equal to 12,000,000 in her
strong box, consigned to the Anglo
Californian and the Iondon, Paris &
American bank of this city. This is
the third shipment of gold from the
same source on as many consecutive
steamships, aggregating nearly $8,000,-
000 within tbe last three months.
A "Quart" Hhop Dynamited.
Indianapolis, Oct. 20. A "quart"
shop at Greenwood, operated by Pat
rick Murphy, of this city, gave the vil
lagers much offense, and a charge of
dynamite was placed under the build-
ng and .the structure and contents
were scatterea oroaacasc unarles
Stevens, a bartender, John Devoe'
partner, sleeping in a rear room, was
thrown into the street and severely
hurt. Tbe force of the explosion broke
Jury Could Not Agree.
Chicago, Oct. 21. As Adolpa L.
Luettrert, wbo bas been on trial on a
charge of having murdered his wife
and boiling her body in a vat, heard
this morning from the foreman of the
12 men who have been considering bis
case for the past 66 hours, the words
"we are unable to agree upon a ver
dict," he waff as Imperturbable as ever,
evincing no joy.
The 12 men were divided as follows
For conviction and tbe death penalty
Heickhold, Boyd, Bibby, Mahoney,
Behmiller, Honmer, Shaw. Franzen
and Fowler. For acauittal. Harlev
Holabird and Barber.
After being convinced that an agree
ment could not be reached Judge Tut
hill discharged the jury and remanded
LiUetgert to jiil.
Studeuta on a Strike.
Sioux Falls., S. D., Oct. 20. All
but three of the students attending' the
Baptist college here are on a strike.
and demand tbe removal of the presi
dent.
On Sunaay, the students say, one of
the invalid girl pupils, who bad been
Drougnt aown to tne parlor, was as
sisted back to her room by a couple of
students who carried her in her chair.
This was done during the absence of
the president, who, upon his return,
suspended the two beys. This angered
all tbe pupils, and they left the institu
tion, and will demand the removal of
the president before tbey will return.
The Catholie Director.
Washington, Oct. 20. The board
of directors of tbe Catholic university
assembled in annual session today.
Cardinal Gibbon, chancellor of the
uuiyerflty, presided. Unusual impor
tance is attached to tho meeting today
in view of the presence of Archbishop
Kean, who came from Rome to attend
the session, and in view of tbe reports
that questions affecting the personnel!
of the German element in the church
were to come up.
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The New O. B. N. Tim Card.
Train No. 2 east via. tha TTnlnn
Pacific and Oregon Short Line, arrives
nere at i:uu A. M., departs at 1:05.
No. 4, east by Spokane and Great
Northern, arrives at 5:55 p. m., depart
6:00.
No. 1, west from U. P. and O. S. L.,
arrives at 3:55 a. M., and departs 4.-00.
No." 3, west from Spokane and Great
Northern, arrives at 8:25 a. M. and de
parts at 8:30.
Freight trains Nos. 23 and 21, second
divisions, will carry pasoencrers. No. 23
arrives at 6 P. If. atrd No. 24 leaves at
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Flrea In Three State.
Pittsburg, Oct. 20. From all parts
of Western and Central Pennsylvania
Eastern Ohio and West Virgin! m- 8p,n' Comln KeP"-
reports of forest fires. All the upper ,Madri-ot.21.-The cabinet today
' ., . ... ."r will consider the draft of an answan
oughiogheny rsgion is in a blaze, i from Spain to the note of the United
Across the Youghiogheny river Lime- Stateson the u eject of Cuba, delivered
stone hill is a lurid slope of fire, and to the Spanish government by Mints
south of Connellsvllle the fire is eat- ter Woodford. It is reported that th
every pane in adjoining residences and ing the shrubbery, endangering homes answer will Include a protest apalnit
aroused every villager. and destroying hundreds of barns. I filibustering.